WOW FACTORS
Jun 10, 2022
3 minutes
THIS DAY IN history
1 July 1858 The Linnean Society in London listens to a reading of a paper by Charles Darwin, coauthored with Alfred Russel Wallace, on how natural selection accounts for the evolution of species, the first time this theory is made public.
1 July 1903 The first day of the inaugural Tour de France takes place, with the first stage spanning 471km from Paris to Lyon.
Designer Louis Réard unveils a two-piece swimsuit at the Piscine Molitor, a pool in Paris, naming it after
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